can you send me your list? erwin.moeller(@)freenet.de. I am looking for minerals from the Black Forest and Kaiserstuhl area (Southwestern Germany). I have lots of samples of secondary minerals from Clara Mine (e.g. cuprotungstite, duftite, bayldonite, rankachite and lots of others) and minerals from the whole Flack Forest such as ferberite or hemimorphite for trade/swap.

I have not done much trading by mail to date, nor do I have a list of available material. That said, I've just culled my collection and removed replicates which I'd love to exchange with someone who's got British/European material to spare.

My specimens are mounted on corks with Elmer's water-soluble glue, on black liners in standard 25X25X20 mm black plastic boxes with clear lids; the species and locality information are on the labels, along with the Strunz 8th code and single-letter xl. group designation. The labels are on card stock and glued with water-soluble Elmer's, so the label can be soaked off easily and your own label pasted on, if you so choose.

I'd propose sending a "grab bag" of different specimens, say 25 to 50, chosen for aesthetics first. The vast majority of material will be from the western United States. I guarantee some genuine treasures.

In return, I'd expect the same number of different specimens of equal quality, mounted or unmounted.

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